Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. If it looks like a Nazi And talks like a Nazi And acts like a Nazi It's probably Antifa.
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  2. Luntz to populists: "Shut up and let the elites run your lives."
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  3. How do you know when you have too many immigrants to assimilate? When you have shops with signs that are not in English. As long as there are shops with signs that are not in English, immigration should be closed.
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  4. "Populism divides" No. The poison of Elitism divides. Populism is the antidote. Get rid of the poison, you don't need the antidote.
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  5. If the integrity of the 2020 election was questionable, why is it so bad to question it? Shouldn't we get the true and correct answers to those questions, to make the best decisions going forward?
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  6. "The job of the civil service is not to rule society, it is to run society" Still missed the mark -- their job is to SERVE society, as the name implies.
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  7. Patriotic British: "D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history!" Illegal immigrants: "Amateurs"
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  8. "Shotgun weddings went on to be long, happy marriages" As I understand it, many Roman comedies were based on this premise.
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  9. "You don't have cops killing kids the way we have in the United States." The United States doesn't have "cops killing kids the way we have in the United States". In the entire country of 325 million, police kill unarmed black people at a rate of *one per month*. That's it. And they're prosecuted when they do, in an attempt to reduce that number to zero. When we decided to police less aggressively, the homicide rate among black kids in a SINGLE CITY in a SINGLE WEEKEND increased to eliminate any gains we may have had, with police pulling back. Luntz, your authority as a statistician is severely jeopardized by the fact that you have swallowed the BLM narrative wholesale, when that narrative is just WRONG.
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  10. As middle-class and working-class Americans could almost start to call June, Summer Savings Month. =)
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  11. It's entirely possible to revive it. Be faithful, be patient, be dedicated, and look for others who are likeminded.
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  12. Starkey - "You can't control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to it." Ancient Romans - "He who has learned to die, cannot be made a slave." There are some circumstances where an appeal to the humanity of those around you, is a better hope than simply giving up on life.
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  13. We need to reinforce the idea that over-identifying with a persona is insanity. Intersectional categories are personae. If you think your identity is all intersectional categories, you are insane.
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  14.  @Make_Boxing_Great_Again  Archaeological evidence supports it as well. As does the social development of the entire Mediterranean basin for the succeeding centuries, the entirety of Europe for a couple of millennia, and the entire world for the last few centuries. But aside from that? I guess there isn't any evidence. How blind you are.
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  15. By the way, the vast majority of Americans reject the 1619 project. It's an intellectual fad that will not last the decade.
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  16. "You don't need Woke; you don't need populism" Of course the UK needs populism -- they needed Brexit, to avoid a takeover by the Authoritarian Bureaucrats of Brussels. There are still some (many, possibly majority) Authoritarian Bureaucrats in London, that need to be turfed out. Liberty simply cannot coexist with the degree of State control that these petty tyrants wish to exercise. I think there may be more hope for Britain, because there is already a well-established formula for constraining the rights of would-be tyrants to a very few: to Advise, to Be Consulted, and to Warn. Covid is showing us just how at-risk the principle of Informed Consent has become. Unless we impose the above formula on government "experts", Liberty will vanish.
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  17. The same people that did the Maricopa audit need to investigate the California recall.
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  18. Voddie Bauchim talks about three steps of brainwashing, the second of which is "Jamming". This step is characterized as massive social pressure to endlessly qualify every statement you make that is counter to The Narrative. "I'm not saying go back to the 50's, I'm not against women in the workplace, I'm not saying I'm anti-feminist" you say over and over again, until you forget to take your own side, and you ultimately say "I don't have the answers". Recognize what has happened to your mind. Reject it. Avoid situations where people continue to affect your mind this way. Hold fast to the truth. Say what you have to say, without qualification. Do not fear to embrace solutions from the past, they worked.
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  19. "[Cancel culture] will not end until university professors tell their students that there is a right way and a wrong way to deal with information they disagree with." Trouble is, too many of those professors are Marxists who taught the students to do what they're doing, and most of the rest are people who know how to keep their heads down, especially when they disagree with Marxists. That's how we got into this mess.
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  20. You need to teach real Christianity, though -- not the modern heresies that this video leans towards. Demographic collapse is the most pressing catastrophe in the West right now; Christian marriage and family points the way back to a healthy norm. While it's good to see Christianity boosted publicly, this video's mutation of the faith is a sterile one.
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  21. In England, is the lockdown leading people to flee the cities and telecommute from the countryside -- maybe the towns they grew up in? That's happening in America, a lot now. Tech companies are cutting down on their commercial real estate costs, as they decide that employees don't need office space anymore.
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  22.  @NativeNewMexican  Amen to that.
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  23.  @iainrae6159  He came to Earth and talked with us for a while. That's not so strange.
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  24.  @Make_Boxing_Great_Again  The Creator of the universe is able to make the universe bend to His will? I've used by brain to program enough simulations, that this is entirely plausible. Do you have any new arguments for atheism? The old ones from the last decade (or older) are pretty threadbare at this point.
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  25.  @thedude0000  Er, no. The Bible is consistent enough on enough points that you can create a solid foundation for a culture from it. If you're talking transubstantiation vs. consubstantiation it starts to get a little murky, but that only really gets to be a problem when Rome imposes taxes to build themselves churches with Renaissance levels of decoration, or when the Hapsburgs want to take over Europe.
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  26.  @thedude0000  Nonsense. Read Paul's letter to Philemon and the book of Exodus (or even Deuteronomy) if you'd like to know what the Bible says about slavery and emancipation. Christians (William Wilberforce in England, the Quakers in America) were at the head of the Protestant versions of the abolition movement, and the Catholic Church - from popes to ecclesiastical councils - have been at the center of that for centuries. So... pretty consistent, there. Can someone claim that the Bible supports slavery? Only if you ignore the parts that condemn it as evil and celebrate the freeing of slaves, and you instead emphasize the passages about ameliorating the condition of slaves as somehow "justifying" the practice. To claim that Christianity supports slavery when it has been the foundation of abolition, is either ignorance, stupidity, or malice. We're not supposed to assume malice where stupidity is a sufficient expalnation, right?
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  27. "We're not going back to the 50's or the 80's" And here's where you give the game away. The 80's went back to the 50's. There's no reason the 20's and 30's can't go back to the 80's, except all the whiners saying "can't be done, can't be done". It's pathetic.
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  28. "If you don't think America is great, tell me why, because I want to fix it." Be careful who you ask this of, and their motives for criticizing America. Some critics are not well intentioned. Those critics must be ignored.
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  29. "I don't think we should go back to the 50's, I think we need women in the workplace" Then you have chosen death for your country. Good night.
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  30. During America's Civil War, the North had trouble finding generals aggressive enough and competent enough to face the South. When Ulysses S Grant showed his worth, the Union establishment elites said of him, "He's a drinker!" (which was not accurate), or "he's a butcher!" (which his tolerance for casualties may have merited) and they insisted that Lincoln sack him. Abraham Lincoln said instead, "I need this man. He fights." And Grant won the war.
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  31. You know, despite being a Christian, when I was a kid I would have dismissed this as overreacting -- but I've seen what happened in the last 40 years, and now I completely agree with your take here.
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  32. "I don't have the answers." So clearly, we should not follow your advice. A good start would be, look at the approach you've taken (rejecting the 50's, forcing women into the workforce) and doing the OPPOSITE.
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  33. For those who are simply unable to believe in the verity of the Gospels: Consider, if the Bible is not the Word of God, what is it? "Bronze age fables" needlessly denigrates the usefulness of fables. If the hare is overconfident, can the slow and steady tortoise not win? Have you never met someone who deprecated something unattainable, like the fox and his "sour grapes"? We should be careful not to dismiss wisdom. "But that was from long ago!" is the protest. Are you pretending that Christian theologians -- often the most brilliant men of their time -- have not been wrangling over one thing and another during those intervening centuries? Rerum Novarum is not the only document dealing with the novel. "Things have changed so much!" others will say. Have they, though? Children are still conceived and born the same way; jealousy has not been defeated in the human heart, and it likely never will be. Orienting the privileges of family life around fertile couples should not be lightly dismissed in a country with a collapsing birthrate. This is just to name one part of human nature that even the ancients would have recognized. Please reflect: The West, including just about every value you imagine, is built on a foundation of Christianity. (See Tom Holland's book "Dominion"). Not Islam, not Confucianism, not Buddhism, not Paganism, not various atheistic blunders of the 20th century so blood-soaked as to prove Christianity's pacifist bona fides. If you simply can't be one of the people who believes Christianity to be true, and you must be a philosopher who believes it false, at least be judicious and believe it to be useful.
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  34. The Cold War was a dialectic between Capitalism and Communism. Who won? The Market-economy Welfare State. The new Cold War I see brewing is a dialectic between the Authoritarian Bureaucracy and the Liberal Democracy. I'm curious what will result.
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  35. This group carries the light that the BBC used to bear.
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  36. There is a new Cold War brewing. In one corner, we have Liberty-minded Democracy. In the other corner, we have Authoritarian Bureaucracy. This is not just a reflection of China's Authoritarian Bureaucracy; this is what the "populist revolt" is all about. The elites of Britain and the United States are on the side of the Authoritarians. Brexit and Trumpism were about breaking down the Western elites, putting them back into their place as public servants, rather than public masters.
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  37. The eventual race war that unassimilated migrants will inevitably cause, will be shortened or could be avoided by policies of mass deportation.
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  38. "I don't think we'll get there by banning ab**tion" No, but it will help. Look at the US birthrates in the 1970s. There is an unmistkeable cliff when Roe passed. We might not see the mirror-image by banning ab**tion, but to say there would be no effect is simply an anti-natalist lie.
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  39. The most disturbing part of the Social Justice religion is not its self-righteousness, but its ability to insinuate itself into institutions and make people fear for their livelihoods. This is evil, and must be stopped.
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  40. "There is no reason men have any advantages over women, in being a journalist" Depends on the beat. Sometimes a journalist has to go dangerous places and meet dangerous people to get a story, and if that journalist has more self-defense assets (such as physical strength and an intimidating stature) men more often have those assets than women do. That said, physical strength and intimidating stature are a DISadvantage in other situations -- so the best world is one in which men and women embrace their differences, and work together.
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  41.  @Str4t0sph4r4  Have a look at the New Testament (the books Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in the Bible.) Some editions even have Jesus' words in red type, so they're easier to notice.
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  42. The mistake you're making is the idea that these activists are telling the truth about ANYWHERE in the world. America does not have the problems they imagine it to have. That same imagination (if it is that, and not just malice) is what is imported to Britain.
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  43. BLM is just Karl Marx in blackface.
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  44. Robin Hood was heavily informed by the Norman / Saxon split. I mostly missed that when I was a kid. I hope my grandchildren can read the same stories and ignore the ethnic tensions just like I did; I'm not a better person from being aware of them.
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  45. Make a list of your critics who are claiming "you're trying to push us back to the '50s" or "you want a Handmaid's Tale world", so that we know who needs to be sidelined and marginalized.
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  46. There are even some Americans here that love belting out "Land of Hope and Glory", along with YouTube videos of the Last Night of the Proms. Keep up the good fight!
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  47. One thing we could do to help fertility in both the biological and demographic sense, is to end the mass-manufacture of artificial hormones. The presence of these in the ground water supply is hurting both men and women, so they should be banned as an environmental toxin.
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  48. Considering the Memory Hole treatment that a lot of books are getting today, I think that a Scriptorium that faithfully preserves and reproduces books actually sounds like a good idea.
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  49. Sweden is being held up as a shining example of a pure history??? If all countries on Earth were required to pay reparations for invading, enslaving, and colonizing other nations (and receiving reparations when deserved) wouldn't Sweden be absolutely crushed by the sheer number of claims against Viking expansionism?
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  50. Victor, please do as many of these interviews as you possibly can! We need more adults in the room!
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  51. "We should have faith in these people [medical scientists] because we are an Enlightened people." This is exactly backwards. BECAUSE both we and medical scientists are Enlightenment people we shouldn't HAVE to rely on faith ("the conviction of things unseen"). We can be presented with the EVIDENCE and the reasoning they used to come to their conclusions.
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  52. Down with Defarge, up with Miss Pross!
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  53. "If you're innocent but the court finds you guilty, you still have to serve a sentence" What do you think of organizations that help reverse sentences against the innocent?
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  54. "I can't prove it to you, but it's sciatica" One thing that AI does, is it brings some of this intuition back. We need to make sure that there's room for human intuition a well, though.
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  55. "How did Hannibal get 100k men to cross the Alps in winter to invade Rome? They must have been different then." How did England get 100k men to cross into No Man's Land near the Somme? I'm not sure people are all that different, over the years.
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  56. "Call your Mum. Grug is right but doesn't know why he's right; super-IQ guy knows why Grug is right" Yes. "Call your Mum" is known as a "dogma".
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  57. "Cousin marriage is about keeping wealth within families" Yes. And that leads to a clan system that is the bane of Civil Society. We have learned this lesson already. Unlearning it would plunge our countries into the same kind of dark age that Islamic countries suffer under.
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  58. In the run-up to World War 2 in Germany, there were running street battles between the far-Left and the far-Right. Most of the popularity of the far-Right among the vast majority of the electorate can be explained by the fact that the far-Left was fomenting civil unrest (which the Weimar government was unwilling and/or unable to prevent).
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  59. Us: "Are you sure about these results and path forward?" What we SHOULD get from the scientists: "Well, here's our evidence and reasoning." What we ARE getting from the scientists: "Shut up, listen, and obey." We deserve much better. We also deserve, "Here are a few alternatives that have been proposed, and here's our evidence and reasoning for recommending the path forward we're recommending." If our elites want to be taken seriously as scientists and advisors to a free people, this sort of respect for both their methods and their audience is essential.
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  60. Librarians are probably getting bitter that they are increasingly irrelevant.
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  61. I think we pushed a lot of mediocre minds through schools, gave them useless degrees, saddled them with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and then not followed through on the implicit (and sometimes explicit) promise that they would be rich, famous, powerful, listened to, etc, when they graduated.
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  62. The (self-preserving) goal of every Conservative government should be for the average guy to get the average job, buy the average house, marry the average woman, have two or three kids, and stay married for life so they're in a good position to help with their grandkids. Anything else, and you don't have anything to Conserve.
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  63. Parliamentarianism has nothing to do with religion? What nonsense. This is a "historian"? Seems to me his personal political beliefs are clouding his judgement.
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  64. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is angry at Wodehouse for making people with hyphenated last names look like pretentious idiots.
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  65. "We don't want to feel that we're intolerant" If that's how they brainwash you, you should probably have second thoughts about whether being intolerant (of some people) as ever actually been a bad thing.
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  66. "She's the Yoko Ono of the royal family" Nailed it.
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  67.  @avaparker9603  People are against the lockdowns because they're destructive and largely futile. You can either face the epidemic like Sweden has, and bring everyone's immune systems to bear in defeating it, or you can cower-in-place until we find the cure for the Common Cold (yes, coronaviruses are among the causes for that affliction) that will probably be as effective as Windows Vista. No, thank you. The defeat of authoritarianism is worth the price -- which is in fact lower than in previous generations.
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  68. Good to see Douglas Murray back in the limelight. I hope he writes more books, he doesn't seem to do the interview circuit much otherwise.
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  69. Is most of this polarization just China playing divide-and-conquer?
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  70.  @adrian_V99  Haven't the Welsh finally (after 800 years or so) gotten their signage in their own local language?
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  71.  @adrian_V99  I'm not sure we're talking about the same kind of changes. I think that if someone's immigrating to England because England is a better place to live than where they came from, it makes a lot of sense for them to try to be more like the English. Seriously, what else makes England a better place to live? The weather? As far as Wales goes, if someone's moving to Wales but not taking on the Welsh language or trying to be more Welsh, there's another name for it: an invasion.
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  72.  @Saddamuel  I agree, sometimes anger is inappropriate. Sometimes the proper response is rage.
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  73. There are only two kinds of people who have a real stake in the abortion debate: a) People who have uteruses, and b) People who were once babies. Everyone else lacks standing to participate.
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  74. "I won't be silenced" Not for an instant, it seems. It seems that no one else can get a word in edgewise. ;)
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  75. "Luxury beliefs" - Why am I reminded of Alfie Doolittle?
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  76. "What we're seeing is indifference rather than hostility" I doubt that very much, considering what I've seen in Silicon Valley.
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  77. Rod, there are more of us than there are of them. You've surrendered far too much territory without a fight. We will make a comeback, no thanks to the likes of you.
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  78. If professors in universities say things that are not sensible, they are not sensible people, despite their being lodged in academia.
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  79. "Icon destruction" Multiculturalists of England should consider, before they topple or remove any more statues, just how small Mecca really is.
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  80. Any society whose birthrate is below replacement level, and whose social welfare structure depends on each generation being at least as large as the one before, is probably not heteronormative enough.
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  81. The Victorians practically erased the gender-bent fashions of the Regency era. They probably had good reason to do so -- if you look into his modus operandi (if you have the stomach for it) Jack the Ripper was basically a "gender transition" surgeon.
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  82. The organization BLM is basically Karl Marx in blackface.
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  83. George Floyd may have been a case of "suicide by cop". His life had gone very rapidly downhill, after his job became a casualty of the Lockdowns.
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  84. "If you don't have the word, you can't have the thought" Not in the least. How often have you had a thought but you've forgotten the word for it? That doesn't negate the thought. But if you don't have the word, you can't convey that thought to anyone else. You can't conspire to put it uncharitably (or to put it in the form that paranoid governments fear.)
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  85. And all the world over each nation's the same, and they've simply no notion of playing the game. They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won, and they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun...
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  86. "Attenborough keeps mentioning climate change" That reminds me of the otherwise excellent James Burke, and the BBC documentary he appeared in, "After the Warming", which cited computer programs that predicted that temperatures would rise something like 10-15 degrees C by 2020. Obviously that's nonsense, computer models can't accurately predict climate. Why in the world is anyone listening to these theories that have been so comprehensively wrong for so many decades?
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  87.  @jonathan-dough  There's a science fiction book called "Fallen Angels" from 1991 that posits we WERE going into an ice age at that time, but luckily we were ALSO so busy pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere that kept us from this dire fate. Except, the Greens took over, cut back the CO2, and the glaciers started rolling south across the Upper Midwest. People have gotten so weird about this. First the hubris, thinking we can actually predict these things (this is formally impossible, thanks to chaos in the models) and then the anti-human madness that has sprung from the panic based on those wildly inaccurate models. I'm popping some popcorn, waiting for the point where Conservatives get their hands on the "misinformation" laws the Left has been busy setting up, and start shutting down and prosecuting climate alarmists as hoaxers, misinformers, and conspiracy theorists.
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  88.  @jonathan-dough  "Shattered Consensus" does a good job of collecting articles that disprove a lot of hoaxes like the "hockey stick".
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  89. Re: the popularity of "The Sound of Music" soundtrack... It's ironic that for all Marxists claim to emphasize "the people" in history, over a procession of kings and queens, they ignore that. On the other hand, they might ignore it for political reasons -- the soundtrack does include a dapper young national socialist singing to his best girl about the appeal of the party's social conservatism. (They probably miss the subtle irony of someone with only a marginal claim to additional wisdom, arranging someone else's life, because they think that's the natural order of things.)
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  90. The current mayor of London is attacking the culture of the country his people have come to. How is this not colonialism?
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  91. 31:35 -- Is it a woman's job to speak up, and do so honestly? Well, if the alternative is thinking that it's a man's job to read a woman's mind, then yes, it is a woman's job to speak up. Men can't read women's minds. Does not happen. It's absurd to think it will ever happen. So speaking up is the only option in these cases. Good communication and all that.
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  92. 33:40 -- Both women AND MEN could use assertiveness training. There was a man at Google who tried to make this point, but he was fired before anyone realized what he was actually saying. His name is James Damore, you may have heard of him.
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  93. 37:00 "You didn't want to tear down the existing structures, you wanted a place in them." <-- Brilliant. This is why the reaction against recent political events has been called "populist".
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  94. Are you saying that the Welsh do not indeed sing far too loud, far too often, and flat?
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  95. "The Abolition of Man", by CS Lewis, shows how we got into this mess.
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  96. Why is Putin paying so much attention to Ukraine? It seems to me more in line with Russia's historical foreign policy and present-day interests, that resource-rich Russia should be trying to set up buffer states between themselves and resource-hungry, up-and-coming China. I think that the West would be well advised to help him establish Russian sphere of influence buffer states in the independent countries of Tibet, Sinkiang, Greater Mongolia, and Manchuria.
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  97. Are small businessmen having as much trouble with their businesses closing down in the UK, as they are in the US? These are competent people who know how to get things done. I recommend you try to recruit as many as you can, to run for office. =)
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  98. Huh. Whittle as attack dog. Never expected him to have this in him, watching his interviews on NCF. Good job. =) I'll say it again. Police intervention because someone is "offended" basically hands legislative power to the craziest person in the room. It's the opposite of good law. There is effectively no limiting principle -- or worse yet, the limiting principle is an ever-moving set of goalposts always set just far enough so that whatever PC nonsense the craziest person in the room wants, they get. Pushback is the only rational response to this sort of creeping totalitarianism.
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  99. "I would like to see an end to those marches that make the streets unsafe for reasonable people" ... "How?" First, say the following: "Our sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King." Then, dragoons. If that doesn't work, grapeshot.
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  100. "The pressure is such that they will inevitably cave" And this attitude is why you fail. You need more of Martin Luther's approach -- "Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me, amen!"
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  101. The Welfare State is actually the conservative position, now. (It won the Cold War, by the way -- a synthesis of Capitalism and Communism. Hegel would be proud, though not proud of Marx.) Right now the dialectic seems to be between liberalism and authoritarianism. I'm not sure there can be a synthesis between the two, but we may find a way.
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  102. "We don't want to be the 51st state" Of course not. "Airstrip One" is your traditional title. ;) That said, the United States is the best in the world at the logistics of moving millions of people from one place to another, often having to overcome opposition to do so. We'll get the Higgins Boats ready, and we can probably even scrounge up some Canadians to pilot them, this time to send all the invaders back to France, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, or wherever it is they come from these days.
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  103. Amen!
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  104. "It should be up to the universities and students to decide [what kind of civil rights people should have on their campus]" Should it be up to universities and students to decide to exclude [insert minority here]? We'd never have integrated schools, with an attitude like that.
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  105. "Think of me as a male lesbian." - Eddie Izzard
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  106. Defeatist. Is the spirit of Churchill dead, in England?
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  107.  @pendarricrolynd7444  I'm pretty sure Churchill had an equity stake of his own
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  108. Has Ms. Burchill heard of Tim Pool, in America?
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  109. "Human rights" groups have become extremist hate groups, attempting to cancel any whisper that they might be wrong. Whittle, their destruction of the churches has led us to this -- everything you complain of, in the destruction of the West. Was it worth it?
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  110.  @thedude0000  Of course not -- the Gospel specifically deprecates jumping off of buildings. You've never chosen to believe any news report, when you had no way of independently verifying it?
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  111.  @thedude0000  I once witnessed a pigeon-murder. I was waiting at an intersection for the light to change. I noticed two pigeons fighting in midair, when one grabbed the other in its claws, swooped across my car's hood, and dropped it directly under the tire of a truck in the left-turn lane that had just started to roll because the light had turned. It was, as Carl Sagan might say, extraordinary. However, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is egotistical verging on solipsistic. (Not exactly a surprise, considering Sagan's overall personality.) The evidence I can provide for this is basically the words you have read. That degree of evidence does not affect the fact that it's true. You can choose to believe it, or not.
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  112.  @thedude0000  You're arguing semantics. "High bar" and "Extraordinary" are synonyms in this case. Your insistence that God doesn't exist (to the point of taking the time and trouble to engage in this debate) leads me to believe you've got a particular reason you don't want God to exist. What might that be?
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  113. "If you don't cover this up, our community will stop giving you political support" If you deport them, it won't matter whether they support you politically or not. Since Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, a lesson in American politics has been "the crime doesn't get you -- the cover-up does." Anyone in the UK who has covered up anything like this, is going to find out the hard way how true that is.
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  114. Is this an inevitable working-out of the cynical view that the Church is simply a means of control over the population, that needed to be reoriented away from English national unity and traditional values, and towards European unity and current fashionable values?
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  115. Is there any evidence of foreign agents active in this movement?
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  116. If you want a system that recognizes both the wonderful and the awful things that your countries have done, you should EXPLICITLY SUPPORT CHRISTIANITY. Without that, your country is doomed.
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  117. "The ayatollahs are not Persian, they are Arabs" What would it take to get the world behind pushing back Arab colonization?
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  118. "Advice rather than compulsion" -- Yes!
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  119. The Liberation of our Institutions -- sounds like a good cause. =)
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  120. "All speech is about power" That's sociopathy.
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  121.  @frankd2392  Are you Europeans still on about that? I thought that strain of Nietzschean thought went out of fashion in a bunker under Berlin in 1945, although I guess the Communists (who also believe the State to be uber alles) tried to keep up the pretense for another 44 years or so. You realize that your choice is between revived Christianity and Islam, right? Atheism isn't a real option. Look at the birth rates. Europe of 2100 will be less feminist, more heteronormative, and either vastly more Christian or vastly more Muslim. Choices you make today, will help determine which.
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  122.  @frankd2392  Congregations are only dwindling in denominations that have drifted leftwards -- denominations that have remained conservative are growing. Leftward Europe is also dying. Countries that have seen their birthrates turn around are consciously pursuing re-Christianization policies. As for the rest? Their populations aged 0-18 are predominantly Muslim. The choice is clear: Christian revival, or Sharia law. Doesn't seem like all that hard a choice, to my mind.
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  123. "I am inherently optimistic" HA! I knew he couldn't possibly be a Russian!
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  124.  @tenniskinsella7768  All of those are good things, that Conservatives have to preserve.
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  125. Because Leftism attracts all the envious, less-attractive women.
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  126. Someone is supposedly worried about Free Speech, and his solution is to force someone to withdraw a comment? I don't think he knows what Free Speech is.
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  127. Socialism and communism are far more efficient -- they're simply anti-human.
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  128.  @julianskinner3697  There used to be a lot less tax overall.
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  129. I think that Eurocentrism in the Church of England is wrong. Europe, and the European governance of the Church of England, has lost its faith (and apparently its mind), as Calvin Robinson is presenting here. Anglican churches in Africa are closer to Scripture than the Archbishop of Canterbury and the church leadership quoted here. They should, in all humility, listen to those devout Africans and come back to Biblical faith.
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  130. @Evop Fx It may just be a conspiracy of incompetence. If so, they are reaching new heights.
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  131. You forgot to mention Gustav Holst, despite his music playing throughout! Honestly, I think you should have wrapped up with Jupiter, rather than Venus.
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  132. To be fair, not having a uterus does mean that certain human issues are alien to you. I think that the only people who should discuss the abortion issue are people who have a uterus, and people who once were babies. Anyone who has neither been a baby or has a uterus really has anything to say on the subject.
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  133. "Beauty is fascist" Aren't these people supposed to be against fascism? Why are they trying to make fascism look good?
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  134. If Douglas Murray were told that, to do his bit to save Western Civilization, he would have to find a nice girl to settle down and raise a family with, and encourage others to do the same, would he do it?
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  135. The BBC has been taken over by depraved, nihilistic individuals who are okay with watching the world burn, because Christianity teaches that a thriving world is better off without those depravities.
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  136.  @HairExplosion  No kidding. Don't they know how pathetic they sound? "I'm rejecting every solution we've ever had, so I don't have any solutions". Yeah, I wonder how that happened. Yeesh.
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  137. During the Albigensian crusade, the bodies of dead heretics were exhumed, and dragged through the streets.
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  138. Pakistan's persecution of any non-Muslim is probably a function of how much we push things like "Postmodern Gender theory" there.
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  139. Why the West isn't having children? Well, they are taught to try very hard not to. Humanity is selectively breeding people resistant to all forms of birth control.
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  140. There's a young aspect and an old aspect of toxic femininity, just like there's a young aspect and an old aspect of toxic masculinity (the tyrant and the bandit). What we're seeing now in the Nanny State is the old aspect of toxic femininity, the Devouring Mother. What we're seeing more in the current culture, not unknown but not well recognized, is the youthful version of toxic femininity -- the Spoiled Princess. Just as the two aspects of toxic masculinity are corruptions of constructive masculininty (the wise lawgiver and the warrior) the two aspects of toxic femininity are corruptions of motherhood -- nurturing motherhood, and the nesting mother-to-be. If you were wondering why the new strain of feminism of is severely entitled (both materially and from a status point of view), obsessed with ejecting any threat from their environment, this is why. If you're wondering why this is coming up nowadays, a promising place to start looking is research that indicates pregnant women prefer emasculated men. Pile on top of this the fact that the birth control pill basically mimics pregnancy and the percentage of the female population that is on "the pill", and you've got a credible answer right there to what is going on, and why.
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  141.  @sirrathersplendid4825  Isn't pronouncing things exactly as spelled something the English do to the French, to make fun of them?
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  142.  @khar12d8  English signs are an inexact (but on the main, reliable) measure of whether people know English, or know someone who can help them navigate English signage as they picked up English (and benefited from what finite resources there were, to help them learn.) In a healthy English society where immigrants are being properly assimilated, everyone would be able to get by this way without any problems. If there are areas where the signs aren't in English, on the other hand, that indicates that there are large masses of population who have not assimilated, may not even be interested in assimilating, and are being aided and abetted in their own alienation by shopkeepers (and politicians) who cater to it. It's divisive and unhealthy. If you get into a situation where you have multiple generations who fail to learn English, you end up with a terrible problem where the younger generation is too Anglicized to fit in back in the Old Country (as Americans call countries of origin), but are nowhere near capable of successfully navigating English society. These are problems that thoughtless pro-immigration cause, when they advocate for levels of immigration that are too high. They should be ashamed of themselves for not thinking through what they are proposing, and how they are trapping people they claim to want to "help".
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  143. They don't have a list, but their intention is probably summed up best by the phrase, "We plan to tear down everything English they will let us tear down." This fight is becoming existential. The only positive outcome is for people who have assimilated to English culture to remain, and those who do not intend to assimilate to English culture, to leave.
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  144.  @lesleygurnick4050  If you never get started it will never happen. You should get started.
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  145. Do we need to pressure the British Crown to take seriously the "Defender of the Faith" title? War might be necessary.
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  146. "We used to have books called 'Men of Glory' and 'Women of Glory'" Iirc, the muse of History is named "Cleo", which means "Glory".
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  147. You cannot remove Newton from the history of science. F=ma is the most useful equation in human history. Almost every Department of Engineering relies on variations of that single equation, including Civil Engineering, which is devoted to the case where it is equal to zero. Are Greeks of today to be especially despised now, because of the "Greek savior" role the ancient Greeks played in the Renaissance? The activists are insane, and their activities are absurd.
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  148. China is now (once again) a Mandarinate. This is the antithesis of the liberty-minded democracy that Francis Fukuyama celebrated as the End of History. We are now in a new Cold War, to see if liberty will survive. Unfortunately, governments throughout the world are attempting to become Mandarinates, against the sovereignty of their own people.
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  149. "British are looking across the Atlantic and thinking, I'd like a little bit of that" "And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old." Depends on which part of the Empire, eh?
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  150. Who says Trump isn't handling this as well as anyone would? I mean, apart from the media / hard Left who have been unhinged in their criticism of him for years.
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  151. So... am I the only one who noticed that Boris said that a woman would never pursue policies that were historically pursued by Catherine the Great? People should look into Boris perhaps being suborned by international ideologues who use terms like "toxic masculinity" while ignoring the crimes of men who prey upon men.
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  152. Why do you believe George Floyd was "murdered"? He died of a drug overdose, surrounded by an angry mob. Being held on the ground didn't help of course, but it wasn't the cause of death. Do not give any linguistic ground to these activists. You wipe out half your argument when you do.
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  153. Mr. Whittle, If the entirety of Western Civilization is lost simply for the sake of LGBT+ prerogatives, will it have been worth it?
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